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10 things the “Average Joe” won’t know about Linux
Everyday Linux User ^
| 4 September 2012
| Gary Newell
Posted on 09/07/2012 3:44:45 AM PDT by ShadowAce
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To: zeugma
awk is a good one. Not sure if I can beat that for obscurity. :)
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posted on
09/07/2012 8:26:45 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce
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What do you mean?
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To: MortMan
HINT: awk isn’t really an acronym. It is initials.
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posted on
09/07/2012 10:48:41 AM PDT
by
zeugma
(Those of us who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
To: ShadowAce
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posted on
09/07/2012 11:34:09 AM PDT
by
reed13k
(For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothing.)
To: zeugma
Yep. One of the gents is best known for writing about C/C++!
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posted on
09/07/2012 12:46:54 PM PDT
by
MortMan
(Laughter is the best medicine, especially when ridiculing your enemies.)
To: MortMan
get regular expression - print
Mel
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posted on
09/07/2012 1:21:56 PM PDT
by
grwcfl537
(Sed libera nos a malo.)
To: MortMan
aho weinberg kernighan
Mel
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posted on
09/07/2012 1:24:02 PM PDT
by
grwcfl537
(Sed libera nos a malo.)
To: grwcfl537
Also an alternate, but not the main one reported (nor the alternate I learned eons ago).
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posted on
09/07/2012 1:26:34 PM PDT
by
MortMan
(Laughter is the best medicine, especially when ridiculing your enemies.)
To: MortMan
The one I find at the top of most lists of meanings for grep is “global regular expression print”.
The one I learned many moons ago is “general regular expression parser”.
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posted on
09/07/2012 1:28:04 PM PDT
by
MortMan
(Laughter is the best medicine, especially when ridiculing your enemies.)
To: MortMan
You might appreciate this...
sed 's/#/ /g' $FILE | awk '{print $11}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr > $FILE.client
This is the heart of a script that would process raw BIND logs, and output a list of clients to a DNS server in order from highest to lowest hitters. Among other things, it allowed me to identify misconfigured servers. On several occasions, I identified Unix servers that had lost their mind, and were querying for their own names 30+ times per second. The same thing, searching for $7 would tell me how many times a given host was looked up.
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posted on
09/07/2012 2:03:17 PM PDT
by
zeugma
(Those of us who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
To: ShadowAce
Now blindly downloading distributions is a bit of a scattergun approach to finding out whether Linux is right for you. If you are completely new to Linux then you probably would not want to face the daunting task of installing Slackware. Oh, come off it mate. It's not that complicated.
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![Where there's a shell, there's a way.](http://connie.slackware.com/~msimons/slackware/grfx/shared/slackpow.gif)
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The pain you feel today is the strength you'll have tomorrow.
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posted on
09/07/2012 2:32:27 PM PDT
by
rdb3
(Truth is Hate to those who Hate the Truth.)
To: VanDeKoik
Probably trouble with the X server. Not having used Ubuntu (loaded it once, didn't like it), I am not going to give detailed help, but I can say that if you can get into a command line, have a look at /var/log/messages, toward the end, you will likely find out what is going wrong.
If you can get the Gnome desktop by booting from a live CD, it's probably a configuration issue. In any case, live CD's usually include a rescue boot option which would allow you to mount the hard drive and edit whatever was broken. But you would find out what needs fixing by looking at /var/log/messages.
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posted on
09/08/2012 6:05:19 AM PDT
by
thulldud
(Is it "alter or abolish" time yet?)
To: ShadowAce
Is there a Linux ping list? I probably need to be on it.
Ubuntu 12.4
I got this thing printing through USB but not wireless YET
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posted on
09/11/2012 8:49:24 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: GeronL
Well, there isn't one for Linux specifically, but I run a Tech Ping list that pings to tech articles I find interesting. It frequently pings Linux articles.
I've added you to it.
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posted on
09/12/2012 3:30:06 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce
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posted on
09/12/2012 5:54:06 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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